The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1887-11-03

THE GREAT SURGEON srR1oKsx DOWN WITH APO
PLRxY-A LONG AND H0NOR1D LIFE
DIR. John Murray Carnochan died yesterday Of
apaplexy 10 tho seventy nrst year Of his ego. The
stroke came with all the suddenness Of that fell dis
ease. The Doctor had taken his breakfast Of coffee
and rolls, and was passing into his bathroom from
his bedchamber, exactly at ten O'Clock, when he
reeled and feel The noise caused BY his fall At
tracted his wifes attention, and she ran to him. He
was apparently lfeless, and she could not liz him.
The other members Of the household came at her
voice, and they carried him back Into his chamber
and placed him on the bed Efforts to revive him
were frultless. and they knew that the end had
como. Several neighboring physicians were sent
for among them DR.. Robert F. Weir, of No. 81 West
thrtythird street. Two hours after the attack they
declared that life was extinct.
The family that Dr. Carnochau left to mourn him
consists of Mrs. Estelle M. Carnochan, his widow
Mr. Gouverneur NJ. Carnochan, bis son, aged twenty
four years. and his daughters, Mr.. Harriet Ludlow,
wife of Mr.. Thomas Ludlow; Miss May, Miss LII
liam and Miss Estelle.
AN RvENTFUL CAREER
Dr. Carnochan was born in the city of Savannah
on the 4th of July, 1917, and was descended from
Israel Putnam. His father was Scotcnman, VINO
gia. He himself took his young son to Edinburgh
and placed him at the celebrated high school at the
old castle town. He was graduated with distin-
guished honors and at once entered the university
There he did not take the full course of medicine
and surgery but the example of such masters or the
curative art as Knox Lyme and Liston ned :, MN
After taking his degree he returned to New iork
and became a student In the office OF the great val
entine Mott: Carnochan, when he began the sen-
GUS study of medicine and surgery, was only seven
teen years DID, but his natural talents In the eyes
Of those who we're able properly to Judge them At
once promised him success and renown. In lotl
d, -,e av,@ lInAh
de Medicine For six years he walked the nos.
pitas" as it then called, OF the great capital
of science, and attended clinical lectures oy the
most distinguished professors. He prodted oy the
achievements of Brodc, Civale, Lefranc, Roux and
Velpeau, and by actual personal contact with them
In after life he kept up most assiduousiy DIS COT
respondence with the great physicians OF France,
and always found in them an even warmer appreci-
alton than he did at home.
In 1S47 he returned to New York and began to
establish a practice His remarkable merits as q
surgical operator soon attracted attention and
awakened applause. When In 1880 the Board OF
Emigration Commissioners was established TOT the
protection of new corners In this country, Dr. Car
nochan was selected to take charge of the hospital
for immigrants on Wards Island, and 1t was he VINO
organized it. Here he had an excellent opportunity
both of enlarging his experience and of exhibiting
his skill. He was in the same year appointed pro-
fessOr of surgery in the Medical College OF tne
University of New York.
HIS GREAT SUCCESS.
which quickly became famous, aud which will con-
tinue to shed lustre upon his name 1t was entitled
"a Treatise on the Etiology, Pathology and treat
ment of Congenita Dislocation of the Head of the
Femur." 1t at placed him in the front rank OF
the surgeons of the day.
When John T. Hoffman became Governor of the
State of New York he appointed Dr. Carnochan as
Health Officer of this port and he filled the position
for two years. He began publishing, in 1877, "Con-
trbutions to Operative Surgery" being an account
of his own practice during period Of thirty years:
In the early volumes is found what Is acknowledged
to be the most exhaustive account of the phenom-
ena of shock and collapse after injury to the hu-
man frame that ever written. This series was
Incomplete at his death.
Dr. Carnochan married about the year 1855 Mise
Estele Norris daughter of General Morris, of the
the United States Army, grandson OF Gouvcrneur
Morris, of Revolutionary fame. He possessed .
country seat near Nyack, on the Hudson, called
Cairn CORN and there, in last August, he was pros
trated by the heat accident which is supposed to
have prepared the way for the attack OF apoplexy.
He had previously had very good health, and for
many months had seemed to enjoy life with an ex-
traordinary zest. After the sunstroke his nerves
and brain never entirely recovered their normal
tone.
The funeral is to take place at ten o'clock on
Monday.